Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Forty-five poems chosen from the work of the black poet, Langston Hughes, by Harlem fourth graders.

Author: Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas
Publisher: Mad River Books
ISBN: 9780814253953
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 251

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In this collection of linked lyrical and narrative essays, experimental translations, and reinterpreted myths, Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas launches into an exploration of home and identity, family history and belonging, continually examining what it means to feel familiarity but never really feel at home. Don't Come Back intermixes translations of Spanish adages and adaptations of major Colombian myths with personal essays about growing up amidst violence, magic, and an unyielding Andean sun. Home is place and time and people and language and history, and none of these are ever set in stone. Attempting to reconcile the irreconcilable and translate the untranslatable--to move smoothly and cohesively between culture, language, and place--Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas is torn between spaces, between the aunt who begs her to return to Colombia and the mother who tells her, "There's nothing here for you, Lina. Don't come back." Don't Come Back is an exploration of home and identity that constantly asks, "If you really could go back, would you?"

Author: D. S. Butler
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
ISBN: 9781542017565
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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You can cover up the truth but it won't stay buried forever. A man is found bludgeoned to death in woodland by the village of Canwick, and the close-knit community is sent into shock. Detective Karen Hart, still haunted by the tragic loss of her husband and daughter nearby, is brought in to investigate the horrific murder. It soon becomes clear that dark secrets lie behind Canwick's unspoiled appearance. When Hart begins to suspect that a modern-day slavery ring has been hiding in plain sight among the villagers, she faces a race to find proof before the culprits slip from her grasp. But when key witnesses start disappearing, it's obvious that there's a deep-rooted conspiracy to keep prying eyes away from the truth. But in a village where everyone knows everyone, who knows more than they are letting on--and who can Hart really trust? She's in deep and she's never been more alone. She must confront the tragedy of her own past if she wants to catch the killers before it's too late. Because one thing's for certain--there's no turning back...

Author: Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9781663608192
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Denis C. Wojcik
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1452038619
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Thomas steals a prototype time machine from his employer, the Moore family. He is intent on changing past events which caused him and his entire family to be indebted to the Moore family for the last 100 years. Jack discovers the theft and chases Thomas through time; once Jack finds Thomas, a malfunction propels them further back into time. Meanwhile, Tara is in a race to track down the inventor and convince him to build another prototype. Through her investigation, she discovers the terrible side effects of time travel. Ignoring the danger she takes the risk and finds herself trapped in time.

Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781623236212
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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When a young boy named Roger tries to steal the purse of a woman named Luella, he is just looking for money to buy stylish new shoes. After she grabs him by the collar and drags him back to her home, he's sure that he is in deep trouble. Instead, Roger is soon left speechless by her kindness and generosity.

Author: Michael Rosen
Publisher: Puffin Books
ISBN: 9780141300221
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Collection of poems about school. Suggested level: primary.

Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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Author: Sharon Olds
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0375710760
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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From one of our most gifted and widely read poets—the winner of the Pulitzter Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize—comes a powerful collection of 117 of her finest poems drawn from her seven published volumes. Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds’s poetry “pure fire in the hands” and cheered the “roughness and humor and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she carries the reader through rooms of passion and loss.” This rich selection exhibits those qualities in poem after poem, reflecting, moreover, an exciting experimentation with rhythm and language and a movement toward an embrace beyond the personal. Subjects are revisited–the pain of childhood, adolescent sexual stirrings, the fulfillment of marriage, the wonder of children–but each recasting penetrates ever more deeply, enriched by new perceptions and conceits. Strike Sparks is a testament to this remarkable poet’s continuing and amazing growth.

Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maxims
Languages : en
Pages : 18

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